Gerstenberger / Nusser Catastrophe and Catharsis

Perspectives on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78204-678-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 170, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerstenberger, Katharina

Nusser, Tanja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Tableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic Spectacle
The French Burn Paris, 1871
Memory Politics: The Bombing of Hamburg and Dresden
Observing the Observation of Nuclear Disasters in Alexander Kluge
Rereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following the 2011 Fukushima Catastrophe
Narrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of Catastrophe
Beautiful Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular Catastrophes
Constellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslingers Phi Phi Island
Avalanche Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on Coping Strategies in Galtür, Tyrol
Defining Catastrophes
Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerstenberger Katharina:
Katharina Gerstenberger is associate professor of German at the University of Cincinatti.Nusser Tanja:
TANJA NUSSER is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati.